I've posted like 7 times in this thread. It's hardly the "most" absurd, just an example of absurd thinking. Chill out man.

Utg w/ 77 there isn't closing the pf action...

lol yeah the guy is min-raising a limp in mp with a huge hand

I've counted exactly zero times in my life where a person in mp min-raised a single limp with a big pair.

100+bb deep yeah i always just limp/fold my pairs to 4bb raises, that's a winning strategy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTHhw...eature=related

Any time you mention pot odds, you are tapping the tank, particularly at 1-2.

I wouldn't worry about it since it's a pretty mild case of "tapping the tank" and people say that stuff all the time, but in general you should really avoid strategy discussion. I'm generally one of the friendliest people at the table but I never discuss strategy past the completely superficial. All you have to do there is agree that the fish played the hand correctly; there's no need to tell him you would have played the hand differently when he makes a bad call.

I would personally call there. Im just commenting based on the parameters set by the title of the thread.

I can't think of anything that good...except the extremely common one of someone putting someone on a range of exactly one hand in all situations eg "he raised pre...I put him on ak"

There is a balance there. The two rules of thumb here are first, don't tap tank, and second, keep the fish happy. If the fish is one of those jerk lol live regs who think they know everything and these young guys are too aggressive...strategy won't keep them happy since they know it all already. The gambooooooool aggro types, they don't care.

But the I want to learn since I suck but no matter what I get told I won't actually apply it or apply it horribly...these people want to talk strategy. If they ask you, they want an answer. So you want to give an answer that seems substantive.

I disagree with earlier posts...most people know there is a vague concept called odds...they just dont know how to apply them at all. So saying something involving odds isnt wrong per se.

To me, any conditional statement is a good way to give him an answer he likes without educating...something like IF I THINk HE HAS A HAND, then I don't think I have the odds...it gives the donk the ability to save face by saying I thought he was bluffing.

In general though, simply saying I'm not paying attention isnt always the best answer...sometimes you got to give them something that at least SOUNDS smart....basic, generic talking points so they think they are talking strategy as if they are one of the sharks......keeps em happy, which is the single most important thing.

The easiest way is just agree with them.

"I had to call with my flush draw, right?"
"of cos, if you hit you win"

"I had to fold my K high flush, right?"
"yup...he played it like he had the ace flush"

etc etc

Or say nothing...

Happened to my friend in a live 1/2 game.

He raises it up from LP with QQ, one limper calls one of the blinds calls.

Flop comes AKx, my friend checks it back.

Turn Q, blind leads out, limper folds, my friend raises, blind calls.

River is a brick, blind checks, my friend shoves.

Blind starts talking to himself, "I think you have QQ, you have to have QQ, ok I call."

Friend tables QQ, his hand is good.

Another solid one from a super fishy 1/2 game.

Older lady who has a surprising amount of gamble 3bet shoves me on a flop of 567r when I check raise with 84 after getting a free check in the big blind in a ~6 way pot. I snap call and she wins with 89 for flopped nuts.

She asks me in all seriousness, "what did you think I had?"

RAGGGGGGGE LIKE THAT MATTERS WHEN I FLOP SECOND NUTS AHHH

shoving over the checkraiser shows super super strength

on that board you were basically saying straight up that you have straight/set; all pairs/2pairs would def bet out or check call there multi way limped pot.

her comment makes perfect sense to me.... :/

Was your friend playing with Daniel Negreanu?

hahah, jeez thats ridiculously funny.

thats when the facepalm is necessary

You must be a blast to play with. Friendly fish chatting it up and you sit there quietly. Oh, what good times!

On a Carnival cruise playing on the computerized 1/2 NL table. I flop top set, guy bets $80, leaving $3 in his stack. I press the "all-in" button to get his last $3, which graphically shows my $400 stack going into the middle.

"Whoa, that bet is HUGE! You must have quads!" and folds.

i CRAI with QJ on Q54ss, dude calls with 67o and swears when he sees my hand and says 'i was hoping you had a flush draw'

That's not that absurd. If all you have is a flush draw, then he has some pair outs as well. Granted, it's incredibly optimistic to call your CR and hope you have a flush draw in the first place.

That's like the reverse Hellmuth.

I know you're bluffing here with some crap hand . . . ok I fold

(shows crap hand)

I KNEW IT. WHAT A MORON. I'M GOING TO HAVE THE NUTS AND TRAP YOU AND YOU'RE GOING TO GET OWNED.

Good post, you did in fact post a hand history where one of the participants displayed completely incompetent thinking.

I see what you did there...

A+

1/2 south florida

they start a new table for us and second or third hand I 4bet ship QQ into some middle age goof's min 3bet. Guy folds and says "wow you must have aces, you wouldn't risk your stack this early in the game without aces"

he didn't reload and when he busted his stack he shook the winner's hand and left for the night.

1/3 game last night.

Guy double barrels A2dd on 5c6c7dTd board. Checks back on 4x river. Opponent says "Straight."

Before his opponent shows, He asks, "Wow, was my Ace high good before the river?"

Opponent shows Qc3c and says "No, I had a flush draw. I had more outs than you."

was playing 1/2 PLO other day i get dealt qqj10 rainbow utg+1(or +2) raised to $15 max.
tightest player(nice guy) at the table reraises to $50, folds to me , i take about 15secs and say " i know u got aces, nice hand" and open muck my hand. 2 nits at my table erupt and give me a pep talk about how i should have shoved my entire stack of $150 because a: i have a great hand vs AA and b: its only $150

needless to say that $150 i saved here made $1200